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Old 6th October 2008
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Well now it's in the ports tree at ports-mgmt/pkg_add_it.

If there are any feature requests, do you want them posted on this thread, or a PM, or email to you?

If you don't mind them posted here, I think two great features would be:
  1. pkg_add_it has a "dry run" or "list" option where it shows you which packages match a pattern but doesn't actually do anything (i.e. nothing is installed).
  2. pkg_add_it installs /usr/local/etc/pkg_add_it, which contains OSRELEASE=?? and it will not even run until the user/sysadmin updates OSRELEASE to a different value in that file.

My 2 cents. Good work - this is the beginning of a much better package management program.
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If there are any feature requests, do you want them posted on this thread, or a PM, or email to you?
E-mail, PM or posting to this thread would do the job
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1. pkg_add_it has a "dry run" or "list" option where it shows you which packages match a pattern but doesn't actually do anything (i.e. nothing is installed).
Actually it installs the chosen package - screenshot of installed package here

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2. pkg_add_it installs /usr/local/etc/pkg_add_it, which contains OSRELEASE=?? and it will not even run until the user/sysadmin updates OSRELEASE to a different value in that file.
During install only two files are being installed - the pkg_add_it executable in /usr/local/sbin/pkg_add_it and the manual page in /usr/local/man/man1/. There is nothing installed under /usr/local/etc/pkg_add_it

OSRELEASE is an environment variable which value should be set to 6.2-release, 7.0-release, 8-current, etc. depending on what release you are running. This variable also tells pkg_add_it from which directory on the FreeBSD FTP server to fetch the packages - 6.2-release, 7.0-release, etc..

pkg_add_it will run even if this variable is not set by default - then it uses a default value which is 8-current

I've added this variable so if someone running for example FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE want's to install new version of a given package which is under the 7.0-release would set OSRELEASE=7.0-release and install the package successfuly. That is why this variable is not set by default to the output of uname -r for example.

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@DNAeon: those were my feature requests. (I've tested out your app, and #s 1 and 2 were changes I think would be useful.) If I have others I'll send a PM or email.

Thanks for considering them.
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@DNAeon: those were my feature requests. (I've tested out your app, and #s 1 and 2 were changes I think would be useful.) If I have others I'll send a PM or email.

Thanks for considering them.
Sorry, I have misunderstood you the first time

Yeap, I'll have in mind your feature requests

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  1. pkg_add_it has a "dry run" or "list" option where it shows you which packages match a pattern but doesn't actually do anything (i.e. nothing is installed).
A --list option has been implemented!
Update your ports tree

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If you haven't already seen it, Dru put up a short review of your new pkg_add_it on one of her blogs: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/pkg_add_it-27582

(originally spotted on freebsdnews.net)
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Thanks for the links!

I didn't know that
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